Masaru Sato

For a major part of his career as a film composer, Masaru Sato was associated with two of Japan's most internationally renowned cultural icons: Akira Kurosawa and Godzilla (or Gojira, as he is known in Japan). Born in Rumoi in northern Japan, Sato trained as a composer and entered the movie industry in 1952 at Toho Studios, and became closely associated with the movies of Akira Kurosawa at the end of the decade, writing the scores for Yojimbo (which was later remade as A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing), Sanjuro, High and Low, and Red Beard. Over the course of his car...